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The Harlem Globetrotters are in Fairbanks. One of the players came to our school. His nickname was Dizzy, because when he dribbles he makes the other players dizzy. Personally I think it is a weird name. He was showing us tricks and more tricks; it was pretty cool.

I went to the Harlem Globetrotters site, and I looked at the legends, and I think the best person is Wilt Chamberlain. He played in the NBA from 1959-1973 playing for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers, and the Los Angeles Lakers. Before that he also was a Harlem Globetrotter. He died October 12, 1999; he was only 63.

Last week, I was with my friends rollerblading. Jenna and Holly, my friends, were running and I was trying to catch up with them. So I went really fast and tucked-and-rolled. They ran back and Holly was asking me, "Are you okay???" While Jenna was being a bad friend and laughing her head off! She is so mean.

One day as I was walking, aliens came and said that they came, and they are going to live on our planet for a while. I asked what happened to their planet and they said that it was quarantined. They knew a lot about us for some reason.

I asked how they knew so much about us and they said that they have been taking some of us to learn our language. What they did to some people was an accident. The president let one alien into each house. The alien we got was named Splink but I call him Dlibe. I taught Dlibe how to throw a ball and hit a ball. It took a couple days but he's got the hang of it. He said that next week will be the time that him and all his people will leave for there planet. Before that time I taught him a lot of things. Like how to dribble a basketball, ride a bike, and how to skate on ice.

The day before he left, we went to watch the Harlem Globetrotters because the Harlem Globetrotters were in town the day before he leaves. On the day he leaves he left and I thought finally I don't have to share a room anymore.

One day I was reading the news paper and I came across an article that said You can be turned into any Animal you can think of with the help of a Scientist. Well I called the number and the person on the other line said, "Thank you for calling; you were the 1st one to call. What animal or animals would you like to be turned into."

"I would like to be turned into a Monkey, Giraffe an maybe even a Squid ," I said very excitedly. The woman took a long time to answer, but after like 5 minutes she finally answered.

"k the package of supplies will be there in the next 24 hours," She answered with not a very excited tone.

"Does that come with a free scientist,"I asked thinking that she would say no way are you crazy that will add another 20 dollars to the bill.

"Yes it does and do you want the scientist to be weird, funny, nice, smart or dumb,." She answered with the same tone that was really getting annoying.

"Umm I think I want the Scientist to be nice an very smart, but not the kind of smart that is annoying,"I said very loudly just to make sure she heard the annoying part.

"k, my manager just told me to tell you that since you are the only person who has called us then we will make the delivery man get the packages there in 2 hours," she said with a high pitched tone now.

"k, bye bye,"I said happy to finally get off the phone.

So when I was waiting for the packages to arrive I was really bored. I ate 5 hot dogs, 2 packages of mac & cheese an almost 1 gallon of Orange Tang my favorite drink. When the delivery man finally came he want to talk about the side affects of the power stuff. I don't really remember because I wasn't listening. So when I first saw the Scientist I thought that this is going to be the best time of my life this person looks really smart and nice.

But when I got in the house the Scientist had to point out every little thing that was wrong with my house. It was horrible but after that she told me what to do an what to do with the power stuff.

Here are the directions that I had to follow:

*Open the powder of what ever kind of animal you want to be first.

*Then put it into a 5 pint holder bowl.

*Then add 4 pints of orange tang

*Then let it freeze for 2 1/2 hours

*Then heat it up at 600 degrees in the oven for 3 minutes
(CAUTION: will be extremely hot so let it sit for 12 minutes.)

* Drink about 1/3 of the potion an make sure to drink it outside.

So my scientist read out all the directions to me an I followed all of them. When we were waiting for the 2 1/2 hours we played with his dog that he brought with him an then we went to the park. Then we got back to the house it had been 2 3/4 hours so it was a little harder than it was suppose to be so we decided to put it in for 6 minutes instead of 3 and it worked.

Then we watched 12 minutes of the history channel. Then finally we went outside and drank the potion, and instead of turning into a monkey, I turned into a squid that was orange with spots.

So I was dying because I was a squid out of water. My scientist went to the grocery store to buy a 36 gallon pool to put me in. When he got back i had moved myself into the shade by the water hose. so he rolled me into the pool an blew it up an then filled it with water an I was so happy .

Then like 12 minutes later I turned back into a 12 year old girl. So instead of making the other potions separately I made then together and doubled the recipe. When it was done I drank it an turned into a monkey with an very very very long neck like a giraffe. I was very hungry so I ate the scientist, haha. He tasted like chicken an bacon with too much blood.

This Wednesday is our last orchestra concert. The very last one of this year and for me the very last one at this school because next year I'll be in 7th grade. Which is great, don't get me wrong, but I'm freaked out because I don't know what to wear. Well I do but it's between two of my dresses. One of them is blue and the other is brown and white and lots of other colors but they're both really pretty. Do you see my dilemma?

But the good news is I'll be sitting in front and not in the lame old back. More good news is the shoes I'm going to wear match both dresses. If you are thinking "Oh wow, what a big deal; she can't choose a dress." It's a big deal and I'm an a 11 year old girl - the way I dress is huge! That's right, I went there! But please help me choose which one to wear.

I am reading a book called Night Hoops. It is by Carl Deuker. This book is about a boy named Nick, and he loves to play basketball. He has a brother named Scott, and he loves playing music, but Nick's dad is always pressuring Scott about basketball and how he is not going to get good or make it onto the varsity basketball team if that is all he ever does it play music. But Nick is a great basketball player,and has never gotten that type of attention from his dad. But when Nick's dad and mom get into a big fight and end up getting a divorce. Ans as for Nick he started getting more of his dads attention and he also makes it onto the school basketball varsity team.

Nick is really liking his new basketball team,the only problem is a kid named Trent who lives across the street from him. Trent has an older brother who is always getting himself and Trent into trouble. Nick never thought that Trent would make it because of his grades and behavior, but oneday Nick shows up to practice and Trent is there. At first Nick and Trent really hate each other ! One day Trents's dad comes over an asks since that they really have nowhere to practice at night if Trent and him could use the basketball court at night. Nick's mom thinks that would be fine,but Nick is not so happy about this. A couple of days later Trent's dad is back over at Nick's house saying that he is moving away but making sure it is still okay that Trent has full permission to still use the basketball court. But Nick still thinks that this is a really bad idea. But she still goes along with the idea.

The next day at practice once again Trent is there at practice, and as usual the coach is having them do all the running drills and plays. And at every practice the each go to seprate teams, and for some reason coach put Nick and Trent on the same team! At this practice Nick notices that him and Trent work really good t

Last Friday I had my first basketball game of the school year. I was really excited about it but also really scared at the same time. That day we were playing the Knicks. It was kind of a tiring game because we only had 5 player cause one of them was on a three day camping trip with their class and thee other could not make it too the game.So that meant that we had to play the whole 32 minutes of the game. Once I actually started to play the game I noticed that it was not really scary at all, it was really fun for the most part. When the 1st quarter was finally over I was not really tired at all. We were winning.

When the second quarter came I was ready to play again it was me, Karrisa,Rose,Clara, and Hannah. We had the league with at least 8 points. In that quarter I scored about 6 points. When that quarter was finally over it was half time, which was really good because it gave the team some time to breath. By then we had about 25 points. When the 3rd quarter started I knew there was going to be tough defense and offense because they had some of there best players in the game. In that quarter I scored 3 more points. But they were starting to catch up with a score of 10 to 29 . When that quarter ended I looked at my teamates and knew that they we tired. I was just hoping not to tired to play as hard as we had been because if would of let up all of are defense they might catch up

When the 4th quarter started It looked like most of us were ready to play. I was hoping hat the other would not catch up. But in the 4th quarter they were changing people in and out from time to time . And that would really confuse us because we were so used to guarding one person . But still in the 4th quarter we managed to keep our score up because we had won the game with a score of 27 to 14! After the game I had asked my dad how many points I had made and he said that I made 18 POINTS!!!! I was really surprised at myself :) ! That is basically what happen at the basketball game. :)

One day I was walking to school; it was a very snowy day and I noticed a little blue stick in the snow. I picked it up and thought it would be a cool thing to bring into school for my science projects since I was doing one on nature. While I was walking I started to see something light up in my back pack. But I figured it was just my phone so I left it alone.

Once I had gotten to school I showed it to my friends; they also thought it would be a really cool to put into my science project! Once I had gotten into class I had remembered that I had left my phone on. So I ran over to my bag. But the weird thing was that when I looked at my phone there was no "one new message" sign, or even "a missed call" sign. All through the day I had kept telling myself that it could not have been the the stick I found. Or maybe it was even my alarm. But then I remembered that I didn't even have my alarm on!

Later that day I checked my phone to find any explanation. My little sister thought it was a magical wand that lights up. I did not believe her for one second! After I got tired of searching everything in my bag and my phone I put it all away and was done for the night. While I was laying down I saw the same exact light that I saw come my back pack come from my closet this time. I ran over to there and once I had opened my closet door there was laying the same blue stick that I had found Yesterday morning! The weird thing was that I put the stick back into my back pack witch was out buy the front door. Then I thought what if my sister was right about this being a magic wand! I picked up the wand and pointed it toward the door, and the door shut instantly! The next morning when I woke up I knew that it was going to be a really fun day at school.

When I had first gotten into the classroom we had the regular boring social studies assignment. But I knew since I had a magical wand it did not have to be that way. So I slipped the wand out of my bag and pointed it to the board and all I did was tell myself what I wanted to happen and in three seconds the teacher said that we needed to put our books away because we were going to have a party.

Later that morning we were all running up and down the hall, but then the principal had come. He was yelling at everyone to get inside the classroom. Unfortunately I was the one that he had pulled to the side to talk to. He asked me where my teacher was. I don't know why he was asking me that, because I was wondering the same thing! While he was standing there talking forever I slipped the wand out of my pocket and told myself that I wanted the principal to turn into a ant! And within the next three seconds there was a little ant crawling next to me.

I decided to just walk right back into the class. Everyone was staring at me. One boy asked me what happen, and all I said was "nothing". About an hour later our teacher walked in. And told us to grab a computer. All we did was play math games until it was time for recess, which if I didn't have the wand would never happen one million years! After about 2 weeks of doing whatever we wanted was getting kind of boring. Plus all the straight A kids were now straight C kids. We no longer saw the principal around; the school district had hired a new one, which was surprisingly really nice!

One day I walked in and noticed that there was a social studies and a math assignment on the board. No one looked like they wanted to do it. So once again I reached in my bag for the wand, but I didn't fell any wand in my bag this time. That day we did everything that we normally did . That night when I had gotten home I looked every were for the wand but I was no were to be found. My mom had asked me what I was looking for and I told her it was a stick I was using for my science project, she told she did not know what it was for so she just threw it away. For the most part I was not really upset. I actually liked the thing the way the were. The next day at school things were perfectly normal.

This morning I woke up and got ready for school. When I took 5 steps out of the door I stepped on something. CRACK. "What is this," I said.

Well it ended up being a magic wand; it was around the trash and it looked like my dad made it because it was all weird and not straight. When I found it I snapped it in half so I had to put tape around it to hold in together.

Well when I was walking to school, I forgot about my book report so I poofed out a character out of my book to do my report... I forgot that my book was about animals so that plan didn't work out very well. So I just poofed up a book report.

When I got to school I turned my teacher into a giraffe... I turned him into a giraffe because I love giraffes; they are so awesome. When I went outside I turn the winter snow into flowers and then I made the school into a giant tree, and after that I turn everyone into giraffes. It was awesome because yet again giraffes are awesome.

So instead of walking home I poofed a motorcycle to pick me up. It was exciting because the motorcycle drives itself. So when I got home I made my house into a sugar cookie house an started eating. MMMMMMM so good my favorite cookie.

Well at the end of the day the magic was running out so I wished for a new wand that wasn't so beat up looking. POOF. There it was the perfect magic wand but it was a little to pink so I wish that it looked like a giraffe with spots ...poof, there it was it looked awesome of course you guessed right because it looked like a giraffe. Well that night before I went to bed my dad got a hold of the wand and everything went bad from there on. (dramatic song affect) DUDUDUUUUU!!!!! That's what i would do with a magic wand.

P.S. Actually I would probably turn the whole world into a giraffe. Haha.

Fairbanks is my home town and I love it here because it is very beautiful. It is nice here in the summer because it is very hot but in the winter it is very cold. I mean it. Like last winter, it got down to -40; it was very cold. Fairbanks is big, but I don't care; I love Fairbanks, and I never ever ever want to leave my home town. If I was given a ticket, I would give it away, because I never want to leave Fairbanks.

LEGOS are fun to play with. They do fall apart sometimes. You can do everything with them. They do come in different shapes and sizes. You can even build your own ship or house or a bike or...something!!

Are babies cute? Are babies fragile? Are babies spoiled? Are babies happy? Are babies little? Yes, yes,yes, yes, and yes. Babies are cute, fragile, spoiled, happy, and little.

Tell the Raven is a fun site for Mr.Noon's class. We make blogs and we write about what's happening, or what's going on in our life. We usually are on this site a lot because it is a class website.

There is a story about this website and I think that it is true. Our school has a totem pole in our playground made out of red cedar wood. There is a raven a panther and something else. Sixth graders from like 10 years ago made that totem pole with a true Alaskan. The raven is on top so then it can tell the world about all the great things that happens in our school.

On what we did this week we did some work and some more work. We also did homework, not that much though. It was a fun this week (some week). We had indoor recess (also fun (some fun)). I played on computers all 30 minutes (45 min.).

All I did this week at home this very week of all the weeks was sleep, eat, school, eat & sleep. Like all the other weeks this was the most fun of all, a substitute came into our class. He was okay, fine, defined & great. He was a nice guy.

Today was a great day. It was also kind of short today. I got my work done which is great. To end this short paragraph I will say today is over bye.

Christmas time is almost here, and I can't wait! I have lots of presents under my mom's tree, under my dad's tree, and maybe under my grandparent's tree. It's going to be a great, but it's going to be crazy on Christmas Eve because I have to go to Delta to open my presents from my family that lives there. My mom has to work on Christmas. How lame is that?

I have 9 or 10 presents at my mom's house. I have 4 presents at my dad's house, so my Christmas is going to be fun. I don't really care about the presents, actually. I want to give presents instead of getting a lot. Well, I don't mind getting them because it's nice to get them, but I don't care how many I get.

Hello fellow students. As some of you know, I went to Washington DC, Virgina, New Jersey, New York, and North Carolina. Well, yesterday we went to the city (New York). We went to the Statue of Liberty, and the Empire State Building.

To get to the Statue of Liberty we had to ride a ferry. The ferry was full of people. It was fun to ride the ferry.

It was very windy at the Statue of Liberty. I felt like I was going to fly away.(Not really, but it was really strong.) The Statue of Liberty was very beautiful. It is made out of copper. It was just redone a little while ago.

The copper was oxidized, and that is why it is greenish blue color. Oxidized means to react with oxygen, so if you see something made out of copper and it is greenish blue that means it is oxidized.

We also went to the Empire State Building. we got tickets to go to the observatory and we went up 80 floors, and then stopped. Then we went up 6 more floors, and then we went outside and looked over the edge of the Empire State Building. It was a long way down. It was a beautiful sight. There are 102 floors on the Empire State Building.

Its almost Christmas and the tree is filling up in a mountain of gifts. Usually people want a lot of gifts. But that's the whole point. I thought that Christmas was supposed to be about giving, and having a great time with your family, but now there are people just wanting things then they get it but don't return to the person that gave them the perfect gift.

I think that Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, and it is, but when you meet up with a grump like Scrooge, then I would think that your Christmas has a dent in it knowing that someone isn't happy when you see someone hating Christmas with their family.

Then I bring us back to wanting things. Sometimes there are Scrooges out there because they want something so bad but then when it comes to Christmas the don't get it, and they think they are but there not. In the future when people like parents try to get something for their kids it doesn't happen because they don't have money or their kids want, but don't appreciate what they get.

This Christmas I think I am not to receive but to take from me and give to the people who I think should deserve the gifts of Christmas.

Christmas is coming! It's December 14th already! I am so excited for Christmas. We put our Christmas decorations and tree up the weekend after Thanksgiving. We will have kind of an early Christmas at home, because on Christmas day, we will be in California. So far, there is already a bunch of Christmas presents under my tree.... yay! About one half of them are mine too.

For some reason, I am really excited for Christmas this year. I think it might be because I am going on vacation for it, and maybe it's because I am getting a lot of presents. I hope everyone has a great Christmas! Happy holidays!

Months ago me and my friend Joeshep Stone started on a raking business. First he went into my house and we got prepared, second we went biking, third we pressed the button, quadruple we crossed the sidewalk.

Me and Joeshep picked a house and I said to Joeshep, "This place has a nice volume of leaves."(I thought to myself, too much math).

Joe said to go check the house, and I did (as always).

I opened the gate; then the gate closed by itself (as usual). I said to Joe this place is haunted, but not too haunted, then all of a sudden some little boy riding a tricycle biked out of the pathway to the backyard. You know, like that movie the creepy guy from Saw.

I asked him,"Where's your mom or dad?"

He said, "IN THE BACkyaRD!!..!..."

Avalanches are very dangerous. They kill a lot of people. Avalanches can happen at 25 degree angles or more, but no less. Avalanches can happen two ways. One is slab avalanches. Slabe avalanches are big blocks that roll down the hill or mountain. The other is a slide avalanche, which is just powdery snow rolling down the mountain or hill.

Dr. Adams is a person that studies avalanches. He has many ways to study avalanches. He can use computers to even go outside and do research. He also uses T.N.T or explosives. Dr. Adams used T.N.T when he was in a house so he could see how someone would get out of a house covered in snow. I thought he was crazy, but he is very inteligent.

Th most amazing thing i learned that was that a avalanche can happen at a 25 degeer angle. I didn't now that it could do that. I thought that it could only happen at a very high mountain. That was what I learned that i thought that was amazing.

Me and my class read the story Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. It was a good book, at least I thought it was good. When I started reading it I didn't like it, but now I think the book is awesome! The book's about a girl named Annemarie and her friend Ellen. They lived during World War 2.

It was really bad at the time because there was no butter, barely any meat, and no leather. Since there was no leather, Kirsti, Annemarie's little sister, had to have her shoes made of fish skins. Back in the time there were solders everywhere.

Because Annemarie's friend was a Jew, they had to take Ellen and her family to safety. When they took Ellen to safety they went to the country to stay with uncle Henrik (Annemarie's uncle). When Annemarie and Ellen lived there, they had a death, but it was a fake death. They did a fake death because they knew that the Nazies would come to see why so many people were gathering together, so that's why they pretended a death.

Our class read a book called Number The Stars. It is about events in World War 2. A very important character in the book is Annemarie. Annemarie is a little girl who lives in the time of World War 2. Annemarie, her best friend Ellen, and her little sister, Kirsti live in Denmark. Denmark was a place where the Germans invaded.

Hitler has a whole army of Nazi soldiers who capture Jewish people to be deported. You can see pictures of World War 2 and read about many facts about how badly the Jews were treated.

Ellen and her family are Jewish so she has to try her best to blend in and pretend not to be Jewish. They leave Denmark so Ellen will be safe and will not be taken away by soldiers. At the end of the book, Annemarie keeps a necklace that Ellen had so she can keep it safe and Annemarie hopes to see Ellen again.

This Thanksgiving I thought that it was really boring. The only reason that I thought it was boring was the fact that it was old people and there was no one to hang out with. But on the bright side there was delicious food and awesome pie.

Also my grandma is in town so I got to go shopping on Black Friday. We spent a whole lot of money. My Thanksgiving is still not over because my mom, dad, and I all went to my aunt's house to eat turkey and ham, so in our garage there is a turkey and a ham that we have to eat.

On Saturday my friend and I went to go tubing on Birch Hill and it was a lot of fun. Tubing is when you get in a tube with a plastic bottom. Birch Hill is too hard to walk up, so they hook you on to a belt and bring you up in your tube. The next thing is that you pick a lane and old on tight as you go down the super icy hill. You might go in to the parking lot (but you don't really because they put hay down to stop you from doing that). So when we got to the top of the hill we started to slide down but after the first jump we started to slow down on the track and then.... We stopped right in the middle and had to walk down the rest of the way.

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You can trust me

In the morning I get up and get dressed. Then my mom or dad takes me to school (which would be Denali Elementary!!!) When the bell rings at 8:30 all the kids go to their classrooms, (I am in Mr. Noon's class.) Next at about 8:45 Mr. Doran (our principal) talks to the school about the announcements. After that we say the pledge of allegiance. Then we start our day out with math. At 9:45 some math students from another class come back to join us, and we start with free time where we have snack and use the bathroom.

Next we start on any work that we need to finish. Later it is time to grab our gear and head down to special!!! After 30 minutes it is time to go outside. When we come inside at 12:30 everyone in 5th - 6th grade gets their lunch. After lunch we all start reading our own book. After 30 minutes of that, we start on our unfinished work again for the rest of the day. At 3:00 the bell rings for dismissal. After that I go and pick up my sisters and we walk to different places where there are things for us to do. That is mostly how my day goes:)!!!!!!!

I love Mondays, especially at after school program. It's fun, and I love to go with my friends. We get to do many cool projects like knitting, learning about the earth, doing art projects that have to do with math, and they even help you with your homework. At my school we might do it differently, so here's how we have after school program.

First, after school we go outside, but if its too cold out then we just play in the gym. Then after about 15 minutes we line up in a line and get a snack from the box; the lady who runs the a.s.p. will check us off to see if we're here or not. She tells us about some kind of news.

After snack we go to our groups and we do some kind of activity. We have different color groups. My group was purple, but now it's pink. When we get to the right classroom we do our homework. If we finish our homework early we could play on the computer or draw. In the purple group we would stay and do something like on Monday we would knit until 4:15 and then we would switch to some other place. But in the pink group we just stay in the same room doing what I explained before, homework and something else.

Ever heard of a bacon clock? Well I have. Haven't you? Click this link - http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Stories/MoreStories/New-alarm-clock.

Read this story about a kid that designed a clock without a alarm; instead he used the aroma of bacon.

I think being a fly on the wall is really fun. Being a fly on the wall is when you are very quiet and you write down what you see, think, and hear. My class went through the halls of the school and our teacher dropped us off in different places. The first place I went was by a classroom on the top floor. I wrote down a list, not a story. Some of the things I wrote were,

* People walking and wispering
* laughing
* writing on the white bored

The next time I went I was near the library right by the door in the corner. I decided to write a story this time, and I made it really funny (in my opinion). The last one was downstairs on a bench by the gym. I made each story different as you can tell so I made this one into a list/story. If you think being a fly on the wall is cool then you should try it, just grab a pencil and a note book or just a piece of paper and go somewhere, where ever it may be, and just write down what you see and hear.

One day Mr. Noon told us that we were going to go around the school and he was going to drop one of us off around the school. Then in like ten minutes he would pick us up from around the school. We were going to be flies on the wall...

So the first location I was by the library on the wooden bench; I had never known that lots of kids talk really loud in the hallway. I also noticed that kids stomp down the stairs and teachers don't. There were people that were going down the hall talking about their hats getting token away by their teacher.

The boy said, "That was so mean. It is not right to take a person's hat away." He seemed really mad. It was really Humorous. (hahaha.)

My second location was by Mrs. Reabold's class and Mrs. Brown's class. I noticed that lots of people don't come by there. There was this guy that was fixing the heater, and his tools were so loud i could barly hear myself think. I also heard Mr.Wortman telling a story about not being rude...it was very exciting.(hahaha.)

For the past 2 weeks my class was getting dropped off around the school to observe things around the school. I think that a fly on the wall is when you sit or stand somewhere and then observe the things that are happening around you. That is what we did in our school.

I was in 3 different places. The first place i was in was the doorway of the back of the school where everyone comes in from recess. When it seems like the place is empty and not high-traffic it is. When I was there I could see everyone go down the stairs and I could see the main part of the school.

The second place that I was at was underneath the fire extinguisher. It was in the hall. That wasn't the most exiting area but it still had movement. Mrs. Shira said, "Hi," and then I said, "Hi," back. There was also some tool men talking about how they could fix the door in Mrs. Reabold's class. When we were almost done I saw Mr. Noon coming down the hall.